This holiday season, create lifetime memories and establish new family traditions by getting outdoors with your camera and capturing photos of yourself and your family and friends exploring nature. Visit a national wildlife refuge, a national fish hatchery or your own “wildlife” neighborhood. Then share your best photos with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its Let’ s Go Outside photo project, which already has more than 4,000 images.
All digital photos uploaded to the image mosaic will help compose an outdoor image. When viewed from a distance, the photo mosaic appears to be a single image. But closer examination reveals that it’s made up of thousands of smaller photos.
Here’s all you have to do:
1. Head for the outdoors – whether a national wildlife refuge or elsewhere – and bring your camera.
2. Photograph a friend or family member enjoying an outdoor activity. Or have someone snap a photo of you.
3. Send in your photo, following the instructions on the “Let’s Go Outside” Web site: http: //yououtdoors.org/
4. To learn about outdoor opportunities and activities you can participate in, including the basics of digital nature photography, go to http://www.fws.gov/letsgooutside; or http://www.fws. gov/refuges/SpecialEvents/FWS_SpecialEvents_Search.cfm